Round 1
1a In The Godfather series of films who played Michael Corleone?
Al Pacino
1b Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunei, the Royal Albert Bridge crosses which English river?
River Tamar
2a The Dance of the Knights from Prokoviev’s Romeo and Juliet is used as the theme music for which TV series?
The Apprentice
2b Ross, Weddell, Leopard and Crabeater are varieties of which animal?
Seal
3a Which classic children’s board game includes a bathtub, pieces of cheese and a cage?
Mousetrap
3b A “full court press” is a term used in which sport?
Basketball
4a In addition to Albert, Queen Victoria’s Prince Consort had four other Christian names. Name one.
Francis, Augustus,Charles, Emmanuel
4b In which Shakespeare play are there twin brothers both called Antipholus?
The Comedy of Errors

Round 2
1a In area, which is the largest landlocked county in England?
Shropshire
1b Which Charles Dickens novel features the characters Compeyson, Herbert Pocket and Bentley Drummle?
Great Expectations
2a In UK politics, who became the first ever female Foreign Secretary, in 2006?
Margaret Beckett
2b Tennis. Which company has been the official ball supplier at Wimbledon since 1902?
Slazenger
3a What chocolate sweets, first made in 1937, were originally called “energyballs” and had a target market of women trying to slim?
Maltesers
3b Which government post has been held in the past by Liam Byrne, DavidLaws and Danny Alexander?
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
4a How many pods are there on the London Eye?
32 (representing the 32 London Boroughs)
4b Which property on a standard monopoly board is part of the main A2 road?
Old Kent Road

Round 3
1a Deriving their name from the Latin word for yoke, what are the three principal veins through which blood from the brain and the face passes?
Jugular veins
1b Who is the only winner of a Best Actress Oscar to be known by just a single name?
Cher
2a In Dubai, what is the significance of taxis which have pink roofs?
A female driver (accept used by female passengers)
2b In the Monty Python ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch, what is the breed of parrot?
Norwegian Blue
3a Whose painting of Anne of Cleves is said to have encouraged Henry VIIIto take her as his fourth wife?
Hans Holbein (the younger)
3b Which is the only Beatles UK Number One single where there is no mention of the title in the lyrics?
The Ballad of John and Yoko
4a Which is the highest female singing voice?
Soprano (Tessitura)
4b Mornington Crescent is featured on Radio 4’s panel game show ‘I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue’- but on which of the London Underground lines is the real Mornington Crescent station located?
Northern

Round 4
1a In the Beano comic, which character was a member of the Smelly Feet tribe?
Little Plum
1b Adamstown is the capital of which British overseas territory?
Pitcairn Islands
2a What term is given to the transition of a substance directly from a solid to a gas without passing through an intermediate liquid stage?
Sublimation
2b The name of the dog corgi is derived from which language?
Welsh
3a The A100 road crosses the River Thames via which bridge?
Tower Bridge
3b “Oh, we have 12 cabins and 12 vacancies” is a line from which Alfred Hitchcock film of 1960?
Psycho
4a Britannia and Wellington are piers in which English seaside resort?
Great Yarmouth
4b Who wrote the 1973 novel ‘Fear of Flying?
Erica Jong

Round 5
1a Who is the only group to have won UK TV’s X Factor?
Little Mix
1b Tom Murphy’s bronze sculpture ‘Chance Meeting’ on the concourse of Liverpool’s Lime Street station honours Bessie Braddock and which other famous Liverpudlian?
Ken Dodd
2a The Gasworks Gang were sworn enemies of which Beano comic character?
Lord Snooty (and his gang)
2b Who wrote the soundtrack to the 1975 film ‘Jaws’?
John Williams
3a In which famous work of literature does inn landlord Harry Bailly suggest a story telling competition?
The Canterbury Tales
3b “I met a gin-soaked bar room queen in Memphis” is the opening line of which Rolling Stones 1969 UK Number One hit single?
Honky Tonk Women
4a As of October 2016, at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, what is the maximum number of questions the official leader of the opposition is allowed to ask?
Six
4b On the day before Christmas Eve, the title characters of which 1956 novel and 1961 film escape from Hell Hall under the leadership of Pongo and Missis?
101 Dalmatians

Round 6
1a In modern currency, how much is 100 guineas?
£105
1b Which singer of a James Bond film theme song has also won the Eurovision Song Contest?
Lulu
2a “Carpe Diem .Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary” is a line from which 1989 film starring Robin Williams?
Dead Poets Society
2b Which creature was the first to be put into the witches’ cauldron in Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
Toad
3a Spain’s highest mountain is located on which island?
Tenerife (Mt Tiede)
3b The 1929 novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ was originally written in which language?
German
4a With a name derived from the Latin word for lungs, which are the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood?
Pulmonary veins
4b If the Ides of March are the 15th of March, what date are the Nones of March?
7th March (9 days before the Ides - both days inclusive)

Round 7
1a In the pirates’ song in the 1883 novel ‘Treasure Island', how many men were there “on the dead man’s chest”?
15
1b Who was the narrator in Charles Dickens’1861 novel ‘Great Expectations’?
Pip or Philip Pirrip
2a In terms of area, which is the largest land-locked state in USA?
Montana
2b What type of cake is said to have been named to celebrate the 1884 marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria?
Battenberg
3a What classic children’s game has characters called Sweetie, Veggie and Bottomless Potamus?
Hungry Hippos
3b Fly, frog, fen and bee are varieties of which flowering plant?
Orchids
4a When Oliver Cromwell famously asked to be painted “warts and all”, who was the artist?
Peter Lely (accept Samuel Cooper)
4b In the famous Monty Python sketch ‘The Philosophers Football Match", name either the referee who kept time with an hourglass or the scorer of the only goal for Greece.
Confucius (referee) or (“Chopper”) Socrates (scorer)

Round 8
1a Derived from a Latin word for melting, what name is given to a substance whichdissolves by absorbing moisture from the atmosphere?
Deliquescent
1b Tennis. In 2015 Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936. Which country did they defeat in the final?
Belgium
2a Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly is the basis of which musical which premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane London in 1989?
Miss Saigon
2b According to the Office of National Statistics, which has been the most popular name given to girls born in England and Wales in every year since 2011?
Amelia
3a Who is the only British Prime Minister to die at 10 Downing Street?
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
3b Football. How many matches did England play in Soccer’s World Cup finals tournament in July 1966?
Six
4a In the UK government, who was the first ever female Home Secretary?
Jacqui Smith
4b What was the tallest building in London at the end of World War Two?
St Paul’s Cathedral

Spare Questions
1 2014 saw the opening of the Hope and Champion, the first pub to be built at a UK motorway service station. On which motorway would you find it?
M40 (Beaconsfield Services)
2 Which wife of Henry VIII was queen for the longest period of time?
Catherine of Aragon (nearly 24 years)
3 The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 took place in which modern day country?
Bosnia and Herzegovina